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| User: | pachamama (1389402) 
Pensamientos Pachamama
living la vida expat
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| Name: | pachamama |
| Location: | Essex, United Kingdom |
| Birthdate: | 1962-09-09 |
| E-mail: | | pachamama | @ | livejournal.com |
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| pachamama | @ | livejournal.com (Jabber) |
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| Bio: | NOTICE: Most of my journal is now Friends Only (the stuff with poetry or any kind of personal life content). So if you want to read things (arguably) more interesting than memes, let me know.
A girl from Kansas met a boy from Gibraltar coming down the mountain in Bolivia and ended up in England (of course). Poetical divorcing working mother of 3 (girl 12, boy 10, girl 6) living la vida ex-pat in the wilds of essex.
Things I know something about: data archiving, archaeology, poetry, the Andes, childbirth, music theory, horses, epistemology, botany, cello, Friesland, geological succession, the difference between its and it's, Spanish, jazz, theology, making Christmas pudding, women's music of the 70s and 80s, midwifery, Florence, paleoethnobotany, dancing salsa, human evolution.
Jobs I've had: bartender, waitron, horse trainer, camp counsellor, psychology research assistant, reference librarian, astronomy research assistant, secretary, ceramic analyst, photographer's model, faunal analyst, news service managing editor, jazz singer, paleoethnobotanical analyst, Human Resources administrator, life drawing model, lab manager, university lecturer, data archivist.
"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then-- to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting."
from The Once and Future King, by T.H. White
Poets [should be] concerned with originality, not novelty.... 'Risk' in poetry has nothing to do with disjunctive syntax, or heaps of non-seqs, or sly allusions to Heisenberg or Heidegger, or novel systems of punctuation. Attempts at real originality run the risk of neither nonsense nor obscurity, but mundanity. Truly original expression -- since it must be already half-familiar to be verified as such -- runs the risk of cliché; the clear articulation of deep emotion always runs the risk of sentimentality; and taking the chance of being largely understood always runs the risk of being found to be talking a pile of garbage.
-- Don Paterson, introduction to New British Poetry
If you love me to pieces, you can always buy me something from my Amazon wishlist.
If you love my poetry, you can buy my chapbook.
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| Memories:: | 77 entries |
| Pictures: | over 50 public |
| Interests: | 116: andes, andrew greig, anne sexton, anthropology, archaeology, asj tessimond, aymara, babies, ballades, berkeley, bicycling, billy collins, bolivia, camelot island, canoeing, carl sandburg, carol ann duffy, cello, cg hanzlicek, charles simic, children, czeslaw milosz, dancing, data archiving, deborah warren, derek walcott, don paterson, donald justice, e.e. cummings, edna st vincent millay, edwin morgan, elizabeth bishop, emily dickinson, erik austen, ern malley, evolutionary theory, florence, free verse, galway kinnell, garrison minnesota, gay rights, genealogy, ghazals, gibraltar, hiking, homebirth, islands, james wright, jazz, jeffrey mcdaniel, jo shapcott, john burnside, john donne, john kinsella, john stammers, kate clanchy, kathleen jamie, latin america, les murray, lesley glaister, li-young lee, louis macneice, louise gluck, mark doty, martin newell, massage, michael donaghy, michael longley, midwifery, minnesota, music, my new kitchen, norman mccaig, pablo neruda, paleoethnobotany, pantoums, patience agbabi, paul muldoon, philosophy of science, poetry, poetry criticism, progressive politics, rainer maria rilke, reading, rhyming verse, richard wilbur, robert frost, roger mcgough, salsa, seamus heaney, sharon olds, simon armitage, slow food, social research, sonnets, spanish language, stephen dunn, ted hughes, terza rima, the dear janes, theatre, thom gunn, tilays, tiwanaku, vikram seth, villanelles, wallace stevens, walt whitman, water birth, water skiing, wesleyan university, wh auden, william shakespeare, wislawa szymborska, wood, yehuda amichai |
| Schools: | Lawrence High School - Lawrence, KS (1977 - 1980)
Wesleyan University - Middletown, CT (1980 - 1984)
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Minneapolis, MN (1987 - 1993)
University of California - Berkeley - Berkeley, CA (1993 - 1994)
University of Essex - Colchester, England - Essex, United Kingdom (1996 - present)
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| Friends: |  | 95: | 4got10one, __serpentine__, _swallow, achuston, aimlesswanderer, akamuu, andalus, archaeomom8, artricia, blue_lightning, blue_thundering, brags2bitches, browniegirl322, bunnykravitz, chap_eye, choriamb, cowboyjesus, darkbarde, darkest_peru, dead_kitty, degram, dyanov, ebth, elenuial, elly_ah, emmainbolivia, enodia, euqort, fflo, firecat, flightviolation, fossefox, fountaingirl, ghostofchance, girl_obscured, goodfoot08, inertiam, jek101358, just_jeff, k101490, karlita, kdollarsign, kennesound, khalinche, kuukumina, kvschwartz, laboli, lifedrawn, lindwright, liquid_siftings, lucidmusings, marriagefilter, mehinda, mirrorspindle, missfestival, mistressxenobia, mojodragonfly, motherjo, mr_quackenbush, mstegosaurus, novapsyche, nyarhotep, pachamama, pachamamados, pachasguest, perpetua54, pluginthejebus, punctum_punctum, quiet_flame, redcord, sandandsilk, schwa_de_vivre, sealwhiskers, seamusd, seaplusanemone, secretpassword, serenabeaner, shuck_spit, slomosexual, somerled, starlazdaze, stemthetide, stephe, tealight_rookie, theblankpaper, theferrett, timiathan, toxins, trembyle, wkitten, yellowdoggrl, yuki_onna, zenmech, zoethe, zurcherart |  | 25: | 13_blackbirds, 14linesaday, anovelinpieces, camelot_island, cerca_de_ronda, chicken_dinner, degenerate_lyre, eliticism, goodgodletseat, gp_mods, greatpoets, haikudeathmatch, heart_on, i_remembers, iron_poet, lexicaledifice, lovefigures, pitch_and_yaw, poetryslamming, projectcultcrit, ps_membership, ps_moderators, rattle_poetry, timothy_green, tonystanza |  | 3: | homestrange, invisiblegames, rattle_rss |
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| Mutual Friends: | 83: 4got10one, __serpentine__, _swallow, achuston, akamuu, andalus, archaeomom8, artricia, blue_lightning, blue_thundering, brags2bitches, browniegirl322, bunnykravitz, choriamb, cowboyjesus, darkbarde, darkest_peru, dead_kitty, degram, dyanov, elenuial, elly_ah, emmainbolivia, enodia, euqort, firecat, flightviolation, fossefox, fountaingirl, ghostofchance, girl_obscured, goodfoot08, inertiam, jek101358, just_jeff, k101490, karlita, kdollarsign, kennesound, khalinche, kvschwartz, laboli, lifedrawn, lindwright, liquid_siftings, lucidmusings, mehinda, mirrorspindle, missfestival, mistressxenobia, mojodragonfly, motherjo, mstegosaurus, novapsyche, nyarhotep, pachamama, pachamamados, pachasguest, perpetua54, pluginthejebus, punctum_punctum, quiet_flame, redcord, sandandsilk, schwa_de_vivre, sealwhiskers, seamusd, seaplusanemone, serenabeaner, shuck_spit, slomosexual, somerled, starlazdaze, stemthetide, stephe, tealight_rookie, theblankpaper, timiathan, toxins, yellowdoggrl, yuki_onna, zenmech, zurcherart |
| Also Friend of: | 4: aynrandpoll, erolennah, ilubquackenbush, mcm1 |
| Member of: | 29: 13_blackbirds, 14linesaday, anovelinpieces, birthstories, camelot_island, cerca_de_ronda, chicken_dinner, degenerate_lyre, eliticism, goodgodletseat, gp_mods, grammar_bitches, greatpoets, haikudeathmatch, heart_on, i_remembers, iron_poet, lexicaledifice, london_070705, lovefigures, paidmembers, pitch_and_yaw, poetryslamming, projectcultcrit, ps_membership, ps_moderators, rattle_poetry, timothy_green, tonystanza |
| Account type: | Paid Account |
